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(07-14-2015, 09:19 AM)TheFreelancer Wrote: Lets simply put it, the LN does plenty of It, so I believe the rogues have just as much of a right to do the same, Like when have you seen a perfectly fair fight
Hello. Thank you for summing up the entire stance I have on this issue.
As someone who deals with leading a faction that tends to shoot a lot of people in a lot of areas, I've gotten many complaints about how we contributed to "unfair fights" and the like, and not only myself but many of the HC have tried (mostly in vain) to bring indies into line and keep them out of fights they shouldn't be in.
My stance on this issue is simple: fights in disco are never going to balanced, so don't try to. You can have four snubs against four snubs, have them all be VHFs, and one side will still get slaughtered, because the winning team had good pilots in it. So, instead, I've started to prefer the ideology of "bring what you can, slam the enemy as hard as you can, and if you don't win, well, that's a shame." Of course, that isn't fun to the losing side. But losing in disco is never fun, at least to some people - I've heard people rage over the enemies only fielding good pilots and how we're all bad, and yet, the numbers were perfectly balanced. And when there's an imbalance in groupings, there's still a problem. I had one time in [LN] where we actually had a numerical advantage and still lost, and everyone was still down about it. A few grumblings of "oh, well, they're all strong pilots, this is unfair". It'd be a lot better if the competitive edge was removed from people, but it's human nature so it's not like that's going anywhere.
People are going to be butthurt about fights and there's nothing any of us can really do about it, so I've stopped caring about balance in fights against people who don't care about it either. I'm glad LR- has taken the same road, because it means we can just throw everyone in and blow everything up rather than sitting around trying to do math and calculate the statistical advantage of the LNS-CrumpetSouffle being added to the fight or if LR-I'm.Only.A.Pirate.On.Tuesdays is going to be enough of a threat to allow me adding a reinforcement VHF. It takes a load off of me and my HC, and it's not like these pseudo-balanced fights we had before were any more fun than the ones we've had and are going to assumedly have in the future.
